The Internet has made it easier than ever to access all manner of counseling resources. What’s even better, many of those resources are free – like these 5 excellent eBooks, recommended for all family counselors.
5 Free eBooks Every Family Counselor Needs
1. Be Not Afraid: Overcoming The Fear Of Death; by Johann Christoph Arnold – Plough Publishing House , 2007: Pastor Arnold brings his experience in helping others cope with and make sense of death and loss to the public and the field at large. It’s a recommended tool for helping people make sense of one of the most fearsome things hat life brings, but that no one escapes.
2. Healing the Hurt Within; by Jan Sutton – How to Books Ltd, 2008: Author Jan Sutton works to make sense of a seemingly senseless issue (at least for those who are not sufferers), self harming habits and addictions. Targeted to professional counselors and self-harmers alike, it focuses on understanding the hurt to heal it.
3. How to Survive the Loss of a Love; by Melba Colgrove, Harold Bloomfield, Peter McWilliams – Prelude Press , 1993: Melba Grove combines personal experience and insight with updated knowledge and research to deliver a resource ready to help you help your patients with the very personal and very common experience of overcoming love-loss.
4. Managing Stress; by MTD Training – BookBoon, 2010: Stress is one of the most common complaints of patients and the public at large, but few people know how to really effectively deal with it. This book offers timely and updated information to help you help your patients deal with one of the most invasive problems for individuals today. Delivered in textbook form, it may very well become a new tool that you use with your clientele.
5. Breakthrough Strategies to Teach and Counsel Troubled Youth Book Series; by Ruth Herman Wells, M.S.: This book series tackles all of the issues facing counselors, families, and educators in regards to troubled youth. It takes a pre-active approach to helping youth and families, offering a workable product for family counselors.
Writing about many degree programs, including a master’s in counseling online program, is of interest to Maryellen Ward.